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Institute for Social, Economic and Trade Union Research (ISETUR)
- Address :
- 2, Angel Kanchev Str.
- 1000 Sofia
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Bulgaria
- Contact person :
- Oleg Chulev, Executive Director
- Phone: +359 2 4030214
- Fax: +359 2 9873842
- Email:chulev@podkrepa.org
- Website:coming soon
Short description
ISETUR is a NGO under the Bulgarian Law for Non-profit Legal Entities, created in 1995 as an establishment of PODKREPA Confederation of Labour (CL). ISETUR's main objective is to make a bridge between PODKREPA CL's needs for expertise and consultancy as a trade union, and scientific research of the socio-economic processes in Bulgaria.
The Institute works only on project basis and predominantly with external experts.
Areas of expertise and competencies
The Institute's main goals involve research, analysis and project implementations in the following areas: economic and social policy, employment policy, industrial relations etc.
Work programme, strategic plan, projects
ISETUR has implemented the following important projects during the last years: Collective Bargaining in Bulgaria, ILO Project (1995-1996); Informal Employment and Self-Employment, Institute for Market Economy project (1996); Bulgarian Labour Market, Institute of Economics at the Bulgarian Academy of Science project (1997); Monitoring and evaluation of the EU Programme 'Urgent Social Assistance for Bulgaria' (1997); Social evaluation of Pernik region, World Bank Social Development Fund Project (1998); Alternative Employment Plan in the Mono-industrial Coal Mining region -Tvurdisa municipality, project with CFDT - France (1998-1999); Implementation of European standards in facilitating Social Dialogue, PHARE ACCESS Programme (2002); Anti-corruption practices in Tax Administration System, EU Programme 'European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights' (2003); 'Worker representation in companies in candidate countries: a portentous debate for the future of European Works Councils', ETUC project, 2002; 'European Trade Unions and CSR', ETUC project (2004), 'For a better participation of Bulgarian workers in the organs of information and consultation', EU project
Publications, language, newsletter
So far ISETUR has issued the following publications (in partnership with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung):
'Individual work disputes and work courts: the European experience and practice' (Sofia, 2006)
'Regulation of labour remuneration: the experience of the EU countries and Bulgaria' (Sofia, 2006)
'Wages in the EU countries and in Bulgaria' (Sofia, 2005)
'The right to strike in the public services' sector' (Sofia, 2004)